Modal Reference in Children's Root In- finitives
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چکیده
The Root Infinitive (RI) stage of linguistic development is a well-known phenomenon found in many child languages. This stage is characterized by the use of unsupported infinitival verbs in main clause contexts, as illustrated by the German, Dutch and French examples in (1). Wexler (1994) has proposed that the bare form used by English speaking children, exemplified in (1d) is the English analogue of a root infinitive.
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